Asia/Pacific
MALAYSIA
Stolen passports on missing Malaysia Airlines jet
As the search for Malaysia Airlines Flight MH370 continued on Saturday, identifying who exactly was onboard proved to be a bigger challenge than expected, as it became clear that a...
MALAYSIA
Oil slicks spotted in search for lost Malaysia Airlines flight
Two large oil slicks spotted in the water off the southern tip of Vietnam on Saturday are believed to be the first signs of a Malaysia Airlines flight that went missing earlier in...
MALAYSIA
Malaysia Airlines searches for lost plane carrying 239 people
Malaysia Airlines said on Saturday it was searching for a plane carrying 239 people which lost contact with air authorities on its way from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing. The carrier sai...
MALAYSIA
Malaysian court jails opposition leader for sodomy
A Malaysian court sentenced opposition leader Anwar Ibrahim to five years in jail on Friday after finding the former deputy prime minister guilty of sodomising his aide in 2008.
Singapore
Singapore and Paris the world’s priciest cities, report finds
Singapore has outstripped Tokyo as the world’s most expensive city for expatriates, according to annual rankings by the Economist Intelligence Unit released on Tuesday.
PAKISTAN
Deadly gun and bomb attack targets court in Pakistani capital
At least 11 people were killed and dozens of others were wounded on Monday after gunmen stormed a court in a busy district in the Pakistani capital of Islamabad.
PAKISTAN
Pakistan bombs militant leader's hideout after declared ceasefire
Pakistan’s military said that it had bombed the hideout of militant leader Mullah Tamanchey on Sunday, killing five, only a day after the Taliban declared a one-month ceasefire to...
CHINA
Scores dead in mass knife attack at Chinese train station
A group of knife-wielding men attacked a train station in southwestern China on Saturday, leaving dozens dead and another hundred injured, the official Xinhua News Agency said, mak...
BURMA
Doctors Without Borders expelled from Burma
Doctors Without Borders (MSF) on Friday said Burma’s government has ordered it to “to cease all activities” in the southeast Asian country, leaving tens of thousands of people with...
USA - AFGHANISTAN
US threatens full troop withdrawal from Afghanistan
US President Barack Obama told Hamid Karzai on Tuesday that Washington is now planning a full US troop withdrawal from Afghanistan because of the Afghan leader's continued ref...
WORLD WAR I
Remembering the Bengalis who fought for France in WWI
While the British Empire called around one and a half million Indians to the colours during World War I, Paris, which had its own colonial enclaves in India, also recruited Indian...
PAKISTAN
Pakistan air strikes target Taliban in restive northwest
Pakistani fighter jets and helicopter gunships bombarded Taliban hideouts in the country's lawless northwest on Tuesday, killing at least 30 in what some analysts say is an op...
THAILAND
Thai army chief urges dialogue in rare TV address
Thai army chief Prayuth Chan-ocha said on Monday the military had no plans to intervene in the current political crisis and urged dialogue between Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shin...
THAILAND
Deadly bomb attack rocks Bangkok amid protests
At least two people have died, including a young boy, when a bomb went off in busy shopping district in Thailand’s capital Bangkok on Sunday, authorities have reported.
AFGHANISTAN
